Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
Mental Leaps
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
Orientalism
Ronald Amann welcomes the unique opportunities the new funding culture creates for research, particularly in the social sciences. In 1852, Sir Lyon Playfair, then a lecturer in chemistry in the newly...
After 1989, the year we were quick enough to call the annus mirabilis of European history, the fall of communism produced a paradox: we all became Marxists, sharing the belief that it would suffice...
The Fifty Years War:
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
War in the Shadows